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What’s going on guys - today, I’ll be your host Jack Finch - as we strap on our
super-speedy sneakers and take a look at the Top 10 Alternate Versions of Quicksilver.
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Now, it’s no closely guarded secret that Quicksilver aka Pietro Maximoff - is a pretty
speedy dude, so much so that he’s split himself into a myriad of alternate versions
split throughout the multiverse.
Obviously that was a metaphor - but hey, you get the picture.
Let’s take a look shall we?
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Kicking off at Number 10 - Nestor
First seen in the Earth-TRN 225 Universe, the exact nature of Nestor is relatively unknown
- and he’s a figure shrouded in mystery - believed to be a version of Quicksilver
from an unknown alternate future timeline.
He also appears to be in possession of some of his father Magneto’s abilities - using
the powerful innate magnetic abilities to further enhance his own superhuman speed.
In the TRN 225 timeline, Quicksilver was a member of the Knights of Wundagore - and throughout
that run, Nestor appeared to him through anomalous visions in an attempt to fully realise Quicksilver’s
true potential.
Although his true identity was never explicitly revealed, creator John Ostrander revealed
that he was intended to be an alternate-future version of Quicksilver.
Coming in at Number 9 - Bolt
Which technically - there’s an entire squadron of these guys, but the fact remains the same.
In Earth 9997 - The Avengers were massacred by the Absorbing Man - the few survivors being
Tony Stark and the Vision.
To defend New York City, Stark was commissioned by Norman Osborn to create a line of robots
based on the deceased Avengers - known as the Iron Avengers.
One of these - which would later become known as Bolt in the King Britain campaign, was
based on the personality and memories of our boy Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver - and
as well as possessing the technology of Iron Man - could also mimic Quicksilver’s super-speed
to boot.
In that reality, the Bolt model robots were last seen accompanying Iron Maiden through
space to free the Eternals - and that was the last we ever heard of them.
Next up at Number 8 - Brother Petros
And this one's gonna take us all the way to the Spanish Inquisition of 1602.
Isn’t Marvel awesome?
After a time-travelling experiment went wrong, we found our mutant heroes on Earth 311 - hunted
throughout the medieval land as the witchbreed - mutants that were feared and hunted during
the time when Spain went a little mad with the burning at the stake kinda vibe.
In this timeline, Quicksilver was known as Brother Petros, alongside his Scarlet Witch
and Magneto counterparts, under the alias Sister Wanda and Grand Inquisitor Enrico respectively.
In it, the siblings were convinced that their witchbreed gifts came from god, and were both
students of the cloth.
There’s a lot going on, but to boil it down, Brother Petros was used as a long-distance
super-speedy postal worker between his dad and King James the 1st.
What a riot.
Swinging in at Number 7 - Slicksilver
This one is pretty weird, from the strange depths of 1988’s What The ?! series - a
short lived ten issue series that pitted the X-Persons and the Revengers in a weird mashup
on Earth 9047.
It was 1988 - what do you expect?
In it - our Quicksilver was known as Pimento, an easy-going t-shirt wearing speedster under
the alias Slicksilver.
He also went by Quickshivers, Peatro and Petrol - but hey, it’s already confusing enough.
Earth 9047 was a self-parody of Marvel Comics in general - and featured such incredibly
named characters as The Incredible Bulk, Scaredevil - and the prime protaganistt, The Pulverizer.
Hey - it still counts, right?
Next up at Number 6 - Brother Mutant
What do you get if you combine Magneto, Wolverine, Mesmero, Scarlet Warlock and Quicksilver into
one single being?
Brother Mutant.
And he’s incredibly powerful.
In Earth-127 and the events of Exiles, the Scarlet Warlock - an alternate male version
with the powers of Wanda Maximoff - amalgamated the four powerful mutants together in a botched
ritual that puts Freaky Friday to shame.
Brother Mutant was an incredibly powerful being - combining the near immortal regenerative
healing factor on top of four other hyper-powerful mutants.
It took the Exiles and a bunch of alternate-reality Wolverines to defeat it - in one of the most
awesome comic book runs of recent times.
Coming in at Number 5 - Pietro Allen
AKA Mercury - and while this is technically two superheroes blended in to one - it still
counts!
As part of the Marvel versus DC run, Earth 9602 was the battle ground of a cross-Multiversal
conflict between the cosmic beings of the comic book world, and The Amalgam Universe
of Marvel Earth-616 and DC’s New Earth.
Two entities, known as The Brothers - the literal embodiment of Marvel and DC - pitted
their strongest creations against each other after becoming cosmically aware.
That’s where we get Mercury, the cosmic collision of Barty Allen the 2nd AKA Kid Flash
AKA Impulse - and our boy Quicksilver.
Mercury was kinda ridiculously overpowered, and made quick work of most things in Earth
9602.
Thankfully, that alternate reality was sealed away and Marvel and DC awkwardly try not to
talk about it.
Swinging in at Number 4 - Peter Magnus
Who features in one of the most awesome recent runs, X-Men Noir - released in 2009 and written
by Fred Van Lente and Dennis Calero.
Peter Magnus is the seminal NYPD detective of the dark, brooding Noir based crime-thriller
- set in Earth 90214, an alternate Earth-616 were superhumans were prevalent throughout
the 1920s and 1930s.
It’s kind of bare bones, as most of our Marvel counterparts are unaware of their abilities
- including Peter Magnus, who just thinks he’s kind of fast - but he’s a cop!
Also, his dad runs an evil crime syndicate called The Brotherhood which has corrupted
the city at all levels and Peter just gets treated as a pawn.
It’s pretty much The Departed.
Next up at Number 3 - Pietro Maximoff
Earth-295 - AKA the Age of Apocalypse, features an alternate reality where - you guessed it,
Apocalypse reigns supreme.
He wages a genocide across the planet that drastically shaped the way that humans and
mutants existed, with Apocalypse’s North America at perpetual war with the Human High
Council and the rest of the planet.
That’s where our boy Pietro Maximoff comes in, a freedom fighter that pretty much saw
the entire reign of Apocalypse come crashing down around him.
In this timeline, Quicksilver falls in love with Storm and is integral in rebuilding the
Mutant world and establish a place for the X-Men.
Buttt - spoilers - he kinda dies defending his dad, and that’s the end of that, really.
Coming in now at Number 2 - Prince Pietro Magnus
And probably my favourite alternate version of Quicksilver of all time.
I just love me some Regalia.
In the House of M series, Magneto is the most powerful man of Earth 58163, after securing
his dominance in a Mutant-Human War that altered the course of history and shifted the balance
of power for the supreme ruler Magneto.
Enter the House of M - Magneto’s royal lineage where Prince Pietro Magnus is the heir to
the throne.
Despite being part of a tyrannical all-powerful family, Pietro is still a pretty decent dude
- and tries his best to juggle impressing his father and doing the right thing.
But in the end, Magneto kills him and then his sister manipulates reality to resurrect
him and the whole thing ends in quite the mess.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Pietro Lensherr
And again - Quicksilver takes up his awkward father/son relationship with Magneto - eventually
betraying him and flicking inbetween the life and styles of a freedom fighter and mercenary.
Earth 1610 has some real catastrophic events throughout its alternate reality timeline,
and Pietro Lensherr was there to witness the vast majority of them.
Reed Richards goes insane and self styles himself as the all-powerful Maker, Quicksilver
assassinates Cyclops, Magneto dies and then he’s alive and then he’s dead again - and
then of course, Pietro eventually dies at the botched promise of secondary mutations.
Oh - and also he’s in an incestuous relationship with his sister Wanda.
Those pesky alternate realities, eh?
Well unfortunately that’s all we’ve got time for in today’s video - cheers for sticking
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